NEW YORK – Five Nights At Freddy’s, which sees animatronic animals at an abandoned restaurant come to life and turn homicidal, is the surprise horror hit of 2023.
But Five Nights At Freddy’s – based on the video game franchise of the same name – took eight long years to develop and, speaking at a fan event in New York earlier in 2023, American producer Jason Blum explains why. “But what we finally figured out is we should make a movie that works for fans of the video games, and if anyone else comes, that’s great, but not to try and please them too.”
Josh Hutcherson, the 31-year-old American actor best known for The Hunger Games science-fiction film franchise , was committed to perfecting the character, says director Emma Tammi, 53. Tammi says: “She is 10 now, but she was nine when we were shooting, and that’s about the time that Josh started acting.Another thing that makes Five Nights At Freddy’s different is the fact that most of the special effects were done practically instead of using computer-generated imagery.